Google brings Android Live Captions to Chrome

Live Caption is a feature released with the launch of Android 10 system, and it is also a highlight feature in the Android 10 system update. This feature can convert the audio on the phone into subtitles in real time and display them on the screen. Through this feature, hearing-impaired users can also watch the increasingly popular short videos, or ordinary users can use it in public places where it is inconvenient to turn on the sound.

Now, Google has announced that it will bring the mature Live Caption feature on Android devices to the Chrome browser. In terms of function, the Live Caption on Chrome is no different from that on Android, and this feature can also automatically generate real-time subtitles for multimedia content such as audio and video.

This feature applies to video sites, podcasts, radio content, and most web-based video and audio chat services. In addition to various online Internet services, Live Caption also applies to local multimedia files on your computer, which means that when you play local audio and video files in the Chrome browser, you can also get real-time subtitles.

Currently, this feature can only be used on the desktop Chrome browser and supports Windows, Mac and Linux devices; this feature does not yet support the iOS/iPadOS version of Chrome; Android devices can directly enable the system's built-in Live Caption feature. To enable this feature on the desktop, you can go to Chrome Settings - Advanced Settings - Accessibility - Live Captions, but it currently only supports English. This feature on Chrome OS will be launched later.

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